Best Birthday Ever!

Thank you to the best friends ever for helping me celebrate my

3_th birthday! Ok, it's my 38th and I'm totally okay with that!

I had the best time ever.  Really.  We combined three of my favorite things:

Living History Farms, Eating, and Friends.

It made for one of the nicest nights I've had in a long time.

As I sat around that farm table, looking at my dear friends,

I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with gratitude.

I have not always had good friends.

There have been times in my life that I have not always surrounded 

myself with good, faithful, honest people.  There have been

times in my life that I have felt incredibly lonely, even when

surrounded by people in a loud, crowded room.

Today, I can count on many people to call me a friend and
I them.  I trust them.  I love them. I know them. I support them.

And they do the same for me.

So often my life is focused around kids, schedules, driving and 

maybe the occasional date night.  I don't always take the time

to enjoy the great friends I have.

So, thank you for blessing me on my birthday, and all the days in between!

It was bit chilly and a bit dark, but we loved the lantern lit
tour of the 1900s farm

We were blinded by the flash, but it was worth it!

Happy Birthday!  I have a silly face because I was trying to hold
still, and not laugh, for the forever 'no flash' pose!

My crew! My life-long friends and village!